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The $20 million boondoggle that perfectly illustrates the banality of child welfare thinking

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

But it’s hard to imagine anything that more perfectly captures the banality of child welfare thinking than this waste of $20 million: Five organizations will spend this federal grant money to create a “Quality Improvement Center on Engaging Youth in Finding Permanency.” And what will these groups do with the $20 million?

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Notes from the Future – March 14, 2023

Social Work Futures

Here’s one piece: The need to protect the data in our brains – and – an interview with Dr. Nita Farahany about her new book The Fight for Your Brain. Get involved – this is a very engaging and visionary group. The future of social welfare A gym for your feelings? This one popped out at me this past month.

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“They’re not your children anymore.” Notes on news coverage of a landmark lawsuit

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Or does ACS prefer a system that allows it to engage in maximum feasible buck-passing? You can listen to the full interview with Shalleck-Klein and one of the plaintiffs, Shalonda Curtis-Hackett here: They also were interviewed on Inside City Hall on NY1. You cannot support children by terrorizing their families.”

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Co-Parenting Building Blocks: Interview With an Expert

Relias

It was wonderful to have such great participation and audience engagement from those in attendance. The post Co-Parenting Building Blocks: Interview With an Expert appeared first on Relias. After the webinar, there were a few questions in the chat that we did not have a chance to address during our discussion.

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Notes from the Future – February 17, 2023

Social Work Futures

” suggesting new ways to enliven, engage and protect practices of democracy for a new age. Love this “action” taken by a group of Black Studies scholars to intentionally engage Chat GPT in matters of Black history, thought and culture to “train” the data on accurate and vital Black history ideas.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending February 27, 2024

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Martin Guggenheim calls “ACS’s widespread practice of engaging in lawless home invasions that terrorize parents and children.” That report can then lead to intervention by Child Protective Services (CPS), invasive interviews, threats of child removals and potentially, and most devastatingly, removal of a child from a caring parent.

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Myth-making in Maine

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Maine’s equivalent of the GAO falls for the Big Lie of American child welfare – and the Disney version of how the system works There are many reasons five-year-old Logan Marr died in 2001. But there was another reason: Maine’s embrace of the Big Lie of American child welfare. isn’t reassuring. Caseworkers themselves understand.